Why Hollywood movies continue to make disastrous sequel things?

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movies"Independence Day: Resurgence"Or"Finding Dolly","Star · Trek BeyondIn 2016, 37 "sequel stuff" will be made public. Hollywood movies have a tendency to produce sequels when the first piece of the work hits but it is not easy to say that the sequel is the same as the original work or more interesting. So why Hollywood is why continuing to make sequel things, the movie that explained the reasons in an easy-to-understand manner is "Why Hollywood keeps making terrible sequels"is.

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In 1999 the independent work "Blair Witch ProjectA movie titled "The movie was released.


The Blair Witch Project, which was produced with an ultra-low budget movie of 60,000 dollars (about 6.6 million yen at that time) was planned to be released only in North America, but it was a big hit in the United States and even in Japan It was released afterwards, and worldwide box office revenue recorded about 248 million dollars (about 27.5 billion yen).


And one year after publication the sequel "Blair Witch 2"Has been released.


However, Blair Witch 2 can not get the same high reputation as Blair Witch project, and is generally regarded as a failed work.


I made a movie "Why Hollywood keeps making terrible sequels" to see what other works are in the work that the second work was awkward but the first work was wonderful like the Blair Witch projectVoxIs a site for evaluating movies and music "Metacritics"We conducted a survey.


Metacritics is a website that acquires a review of movies from various websites, digitizes the evaluation to give metascores from 0 to 100.


Vox picks up only works produced sequels from the movies released from 1996 to 2016 in Metacritics. The number was 532.


The Blair Witch project mentioned earlier is "81" for the first evaluation


However, the sequel's Blair Witch 2 has drawn a very low score of "15".


Published in 2000 "Green Distenney"Is a movie nominated for 10 divisions including the work prize at the 73rd Academy Awards while works in languages ​​other than English.


There are only works nominated for the Academy Awards, and Green Distesty's score is "93", a very high rating.


However, the video distribution service Netflix delivered in February 2016 "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny"Has a score of" 47 ", which is not quite low, but not for the first work at all.


So, how much work is that the second work has succeeded though the first one failed?


The first movie failed and the second movie succeeded in less than 25 out of 532, quite a few.


Among them, "Batman Begins"And" 70 "in the sequel"dark KnightDark Knight series with "94" added, "Kill · Building Vol.1"" 69 ","Kill · Bill 2"And the" Kill / Bill series "of" 83 "is a work whose evaluation was high from the first work, so it does not apply to movies where the first work failed and the second work succeeded.


The first movie failed and the second movie applied to the successful movie was published in 2004 "Garfield"is. The first work was "27" but it was useless at all, but the second work "Garfield 2" recorded "37". Although I can not go to masterpieces, the sequel is one of the few works that was evaluated from the original.


During the investigation, Vox discovered that the scores of "horror movies", "comedy movies", "action movies" tend to be lower than other genres.


Whether horror movies, comedy movies, action movies really have a tendency to be evaluated lower than other genres, if you look at the average score by genre, the worst 3 is certainly "horror" "comedy" "action" did.


Hollywood movies are mass-producing seemingly reckless movies that will release a sequel that is difficult to gain a higher evaluation than the first one in the genres of horror, comedy, action that lowers evaluation. There are as many as 37 Hollywood films in 2016 when the sequel is released or done. Why Hollywood is a genre that is hard to evaluate and will continue to make sequels that tend to drop further valuation.


The reason is "money"


In one survey, I know that the second work is raising box office income which is about eight times as much as the first one.


A comedy movie released in 2010Adult Boys Youth White Paper"Although it is evaluated as" 30 "in Metasukoa, box office revenue is about 270 million dollars (about 24.3 billion yen).


In 2013 the sequel "Adult Boys Flying White PaperIt is open to the public. Although the score was "19" which was lower than the first work, it was a low evaluation, but despite the low evaluation it achieved 244 million dollars (about 24.7 billion yen) box office revenue.


In other words, "Continuation items can expect some degree of box office income whatever its content". However, as a result of excessive expectation that "If it is a sequel of that work", there are many reviews that were given a painful score from discouragement "It was not as much as I thought", so I do not think that the work is a "sequel" There might be that it is not that it is not fun if you look at it alone.